Kamikaze Girls

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        Kamikaze Girls was a movie that we watch in History of Design. This is the first movie that I have see the at was entirely spoken in Japanese. I enjoyed the movie because it was out of my normal selection of movies.
        Kamikaze Girls is about two girls for two entirely different world. Momoko, the youngest, is antisocial but knows that she want and what she likea. Lolita, the oldest to me, to me does not seem to know what she really wants out of life and is lost. We also find out that she was leaves her city after her father is exiled. The main reason though I believe that this movie was show is because the design aspect of it.
        In Kamikaz Girls  the two girls have some difference, but they are pulled together when  the youngest is asked to do some stiching for the oldest. The stiching is done one a jacket in memory of a women that took her under he wings when she felt like the world had abandon her. After the sticking was done the Lolita was entirely thankful.
       As the movie came to a close Momoko ends up with a job stiching because of her talent. My thoughts are no matter how small the design project it can make a big influence on a situation.

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Robert Crumb

           
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     Robert Crumb was born on August 30th in 1943. He is not only an American artist, illustrator, and musican but he is also known for his distinctive style. Crumb was one of the founders of the underground comic movement. He is said to be " its most prominent figuers" in this movement (Wikipedia). Even though he is one of the most celebrated comic artist his career "unfolded outside the mainstream comic book industry" (Wikipedia).
   One of his comics that he is most famous for is "Keep on Truckin". This comic "became widely a distributed fixture of pop culture in the 1970's (Wikipedia). Other characters that come to mind when Crumb is mentioned are Devil Girl, Fritz the Cat, and Mr. Natural.

   http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/02/13/master_of_mischief/

        In class we watched a doucmentary on Crumb which was interesting. Through the movie you can tell alot about him. It was said the him, his brother, another man, and a female had their own little comic club. This comic club could be where Crumb really had his start in the comic buiness.
        Some of his comic can be said to be crude and a little indecent. I think that his comics are just straight to the point and is an extention to himself. These comics are interesting and some of them are quite funny, but thats lets you be the judge of that.


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    "Robert Crumb- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia Site. 22 Nov 2010

Frank Gehry

              


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                  Frank Gehry is a very well known architect. To many up coming architects you can say that he is an architectural guru. During class we watch a documentary on Frank Gehry and explored many of his works. He walked through the process in which he created building that seem to break the law of physics. He also talked about one of his first projects (his house) and one of the events that lead him into creating and designing some of the most unique buildings in the world.

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                 Some of his "best known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa, Spain, MIT Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Walt Disney Concert Hall in down-town Los Angeles" (Wikipedia) and there are many more among that.
                 When Frank Gehry starts a building he starts with paper and produces model after model until he is satisfied with the outcome. In the movie he is also shown constructing and deconstructing his models several times over and over again by tearing and folding and placing them different spots.
                  Franks first project was his house. He didn’t want to destroy the structure of the house but he did add on and around the structure. One example that was talk about in the video was him not having a lot of light to shave. To fix this problem he just simply knocked a hole in a wall. At the same time of doing his house he was also being to commission to build a hotel.
                 The people that was paying Frank to do the hotel visited him at his house after an event. It was at this time Frank was asked if this is what he loved doing referring to the design of the house. After Frank complied with a yes, he was then asked why he did the hotel the way he did. Frank replied its income. The man said if you don’t love it then don’t do it and quit. This is just what Frank did and now is one of the world most famous architects.

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      "Frank Gehry- Wikipedia the free encyclopeda." Wikipedia Site. 22 Nov 2010